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Glossary/Factsheet
Ontario Strengthening Supports to Combat Hate and Create Safer Communities
The new Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant will help faith-based and cultural organizations enhance or implement measures to ensure community spaces remain safe and secure.Last updated Jul 30, 2024
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Tool
Use CLEO's Guided Pathways in Family Law to ask for an order in family court
CLEO has a new Family Law Guided Pathway to help people fill out a draft of Form 25 - Order (general). A party to a family court matter can use Form 25 to write out the terms of the order they want the judge to make.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
CLEO's Guided Pathway to Fight Eviction Now Has Personalized Checklist
CLEO is pleased to announce we have added a new personalized checklist feature to the Eviction Solution Explorer, our Guided Pathway that helps you fight eviction for unpaid rent.Last updated Dec 19, 2022
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Research/Dataset
#ImmigrationMatters: Canada’s immigration system
We follow a plan for immigration that helps distribute the benefits of immigration across the country. We select immigrants for their economic contribution, for their humanitarian needs and to reunite families.Last updated Dec 13, 2022
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Personal finance for newcomers to Canada: Opening a bank account, saving for a mortgage, credit scores and more
Kelsey Rolfe The Globe and Mail 24 November 2022
Getting established in a new country and understanding an unfamiliar financial system can be overwhelming. If you’re new to Canada, here’s what you need to know about getting your financial footing – from setting up a bank account
Last updated Nov 24, 2022
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Research/Dataset
Ukraine war: why Russians fleeing conscription should be treated as refugees
The Conversation September 29, 2022 Martin Jones
People fleeing across borders is a hallmark of armed conflict. We first saw millions of Ukrainians flee the country when the Russians invaded Ukraine in February this year. Now there are reports of hundreds of thousands of Russians
Last updated Sep 29, 2022
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Research/Dataset
How age is a big factor for immigration applicants to Canada
Deena Zaidi CTV News Sept. 25, 2022
Canada is credited for having one of the world’s most immigrant-friendly policies, ranking fourth internationally in the Migrant Integration Policy Index. But the criteria used to prioritize applicants based on age leaves many at a disadvantage
Last updated Sep 29, 2022
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Research/Dataset
Here’s Canada’s new plan to help foreign students and workers become permanent residents. Some say it isn’t nearly new enough
Nicholas Keung The Star Wed., Sept. 21, 2022
After much hype over a new strategy to help more migrants become permanent residents, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has delivered a plan that largely reinstated the policy changes made during the pandemic.
A motion unanimously
Last updated Sep 22, 2022
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
AirBnB Donations for Ukrainian Temporary Residents
Airbnb has donated accommodations across the country for use by Ukrainian temporary residents and their dependents who are in urgent need of temporary housing.In order to ensure effective use of these resources, this guidance:Last updated Aug 17, 2022
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Research/Dataset
Canada needs to get on with tackling racism in concrete ways
Anti-racism is the call of the day in the Global North. In addition to their earlier push to introduce a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) culture, institutions are now also hurriedly producing anti-racism strategies and policies. This is supposed to combat the growing tideLast updated Jul 11, 2022
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New ODSP income limits
Steps to Justice has updated information on how much someone can earn without it affecting their ODSP. People can now make up to $1,000 a month before their ODSP is reduced. If they make more than $1,000, ODSP reduces their monthly payments by 75% of the amount over $1,000.
Published February 13, 2023
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Alberta will no longer hold federal immigration detainees in provincial jails
Paige Parsons · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 18, 2023
The Alberta government has announced a deadline for ending an agreement to hold federal immigration detainees in provincial jails.
The province says that written notice has been given to the federal government to end the…
Published January 20, 2023
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Canada reverses immigration decision to make it easier for families to reunite
Sarbmeet Singh · CBC News · Posted: Dec 13, 2022
Thousands of foreign nationals hoping to live in Canada are elated after Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced changes to how people coming to the country on a super visa can pay for their medical insurance.
L…
Published December 20, 2022
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Federal government formally bans top echelons of Iranian regime from entering Canada
The Canadian Press Monday, November 14, 2022
OTTAWA - The federal government has formally banned the top echelons of the Iranian regime from Canada, with a new, rarely used designation now in place that allows border agents to deny foreigners access to the country.
Federal…
Published November 17, 2022
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Ukrainian newcomers face challenges as some landlords demand months of advance rent
Sharif Hassan November 10, 2022 The Canadian Press
Galyna Durysvt spent months looking for a rental apartment in the Greater Toronto Area after fleeing the war in Ukraine.
She’d view prospective rentals and put in applications but kept hitting a wall in her search when some…
Published November 15, 2022
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What is the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement?
Tom Yun CTVNews Thursday, October 6, 2022
The Supreme Court of Canada will take time to weigh arguments about the constitutionality of an 18-year refugee agreement between Ottawa and Washington after hearing a challenge Thursday from claimants and human rights advocates.
The…
Published October 11, 2022
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Canada 'contracts out' obligations to refugee claimants, advocates tell top court
Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press October 6, 2022
Refugee and human-rights advocates are telling the Supreme Court of Canada that a binational pact “contracts out” Canada’s international obligations to refugee claimants to the United States, without proper followup to ensure…
Published October 11, 2022
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‘All exceptions are discrimination’: Activists push Trudeau to broaden permanent-residency plan for undocumented migrants
Nicholas Keung The Star Wed., Sept. 14, 2022
As MPs return to business after the summer break, advocates are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to offer a pathway to permanent residence for the estimated 500,000 undocumented migrants in the country.
“The next Parliament…
Published September 15, 2022
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Ontario Passes the Working for Workers Act
Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, issued the following statement in recognition of the passing of the Working for Workers Act, 2021:
“Our government is working for workers everyday to help them earn bigger paycheques, stay safe, and have…
Published December 1, 2021
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Canada needs to do better for Black refugees and immigrants
Black refugees from Africa still face barriers to integration and long processing times.
In 1951, Canada did not sign the newly adopted UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It feared the United Nations treaty would limit its ability to deport communists and others…
Published August 6, 2021
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